Trouvé 105 Résultats pour: birds

• there the birds build their nests, on the highest branches the stork makes its home; (Psalms 104, 17)

• wild animals and all cattle, reptiles and winged birds, (Psalms 148, 10)

• as for the Jews, whom he had considered as not even worth burying, so much carrion to be thrown out with their children for birds and beasts to prey on, he would give them all equal rights with the Athenians; (2 Maccabees 9, 15)

• Then, cutting out godless Nicanor's tongue, he gave orders for it to be fed piecemeal to the birds, and for the salary of his folly to be hung up in front of the Temple. (2 Maccabees 15, 33)

• We do not know when our time will come: like fish caught in the treacherous net, like birds caught in the snare, just so are we all trapped by misfortune when it suddenly overtakes us. (Ecclesiastes 9, 12)

• The soughing of the wind, the tuneful noise of birds in the spreading branches, the measured beat of water in its powerful course, the headlong din of rocks cascading down, (Wisdom of Solomon 17, 18)

• Later they were to see a new way for birds to come into being, when, goaded by greed, they demanded something tasty, (Wisdom of Solomon 19, 11)

• He filled all living things with dread of human beings, making them masters over beasts and birds. (Ecclesiasticus 17, 4)

• Throw stones at birds and you scare them away, reproach a friend and you destroy a friendship. (Ecclesiasticus 22, 20)

• Birds consort with their kind, truth comes home to those who practise it. (Ecclesiasticus 27, 9)

• In the same way, his treasuries open and the clouds fly out like birds. (Ecclesiasticus 43, 14)

• He sprinkles snow like birds alighting, it comes down like locusts settling. The eye marvels at the beauty of its whiteness, and the mind is amazed at its falling. (Ecclesiasticus 43, 18)